June 12, 2017
EECS alumni Warren Hoburg has been selected by NASA to be one of 12 people to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. Hoburg received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in 2015 (advisor Associate Prof. Pieter Abbeel). Currently he is a Boeing Assistant Professor in the…
June 5, 2017
EECS graduate student Wenting Zheng (advised by Ion Stoica and Raluca Ada Popa) has won the prestigious 2017-18 IBM PhD Fellowship. Wenting works in the RISELab and her research involves system security and distributed systems. The IBM Ph.D. fellowship is an “intensely competitive worldwide program that honors exceptional…
June 5, 2017
In an effort to gather scientists at the interface between neurosciences, optical engineering, and computer science, an all-day conference is being held on Friday, June 9, in Stanley Hall titled Sculpted Light in the Brain. Participants are united in their mission to develop technologies to enable real time…
May 26, 2017
Alumnus and Mexican immigrant Armando Solar-Lezama (CS Ph.D. ’08) is the subject of an MIT News article describing some of the academic obstacles he had to overcome on his path to becoming a tenured professor at MIT. Armando’s creative approaches to his class assignments were discouraged in Mexico and despite…
May 25, 2017
Many researchers are working on ways for robots to learn to grasp and manipulate things by practicing over and over, but the process is very time-consuming. The research work on robotic deep learning by Prof. Ken Goldberg is featured on the cover of MIT Review in an article titled “…
May 25, 2017
Prof. David Culler has been appointed the Interim Dean for the newly created Division of Data Sciences. The purpose of the new division is to bring techniques to bear in statistics, mathematics, and computer science on new sources of data. One of their goals is the creation of an undergraduate…
May 24, 2017
According to an analysis by online recruiting company HiringSolved, UC Berkeley has the most undergraduate and graduate alumni hired by the 25 biggest Silicon Valley employers in 2017. Using data from more than 10,000 public profiles for tech workers hired or promoted into new positions in 2016 and the…
May 23, 2017
EECS sophomore Rohan Phadte and Interdisciplinary Studies major Ash Bhat have built a Messenger bot called NewsBot to help users discern whether articles are “fake news” on Facebook. Besides determining the validity of an article, it also offers a barometer that shows where an article might fit on the…
May 22, 2017
CS Prof. Stuart Russell gave an engaging TED talk in April describing some of the problems in, and possible solutions for, creating a species that is smarter than humans. He argues that building provably altruistic, humble, and humanitarian machines might help us avoid some of the pitfalls inevitable in…
May 22, 2017
2017 EE Distinguished Alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. 90/Ph.D. 94) and EECS alumna Gitanjali Swamy (Ph.D. ’97) are both participating in a TiE-Boston and IIT AGNE panel discussion on the “unique strengths of and challenges for female innovators and the ecosystem that supports them.” Anantha is the Vannevar Bush Professor…